Wildmind Meditation News
Mar 19, 2012
Yoga: Separating fact from fiction
Dorothy Brown reviews The Science of Yoga: The Risks and the Rewards, by William J. Broad.
If practicing yoga is a right-brain experience, involving meditation, movement, and a detachment from the everyday, then reading The Science of Yoga is a jolt to the other side of the brain: analytical, historical, scientific, and sobering.
But to underscore the proven value of yoga, considered so wifty by so many, New York Times science writer William J. Broad has brought an arsenal of data.
At the front of the book, he lists 68 “main characters,” devotees of yoga and the science of yoga many of whom have …
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